Historical Person

Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo

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📍 Brazil

Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo

Gender: Male

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A metropolitan law frees enslaved people arriving in Portugal

📅 19 September 1761

On 19 September 1761, an alvará prohibited transporting enslaved Black people from ports in the Americas, Africa, and Asia to mainland Portugal and declared those who arrived there free after the...